
Aston Villa are flying high in the Premier League. Under the guidance of Unai Emery, the second city club have been one of the division’s best-performing sides over a three-year period and are in a positive position in 2025-26.
Villa missed out on a Champions League place last May, setting out the very simplest of objectives for the new season: find a way back in. The Premier League and Europa League are both potential routes but neither looked promising on transfer deadline day at the start of September.